Category Archives: Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker Closeup

Downy Woodpecker Closeup

Downy Woodpecker Closeup

Downy Woodpecker Closeup

The picture of this Downy Woodpecker Closeup was taken at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York. The picture of this Down Woodpecker Closeup was photographed with the Canon 5D Mark III Canon 300mm f2.8 IS II with the 2X extender.
To hear the song of the Downy Woodpecker, click on the arrow below.

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

The Ladder-backed Woodpecker is a small black-and-white woodpecker of the southwestern United States and Mexico that forages and nests in cactus. The picture of this Ladder-backed Woodpecker was taken in Patagonia, Arizona.
To hear the sounds of the Ladder-backed Woodpecker, click on the arrow below.

Downy Woodpecker in Winter

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

The picture of this Downy Woodpecker was taken at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York. The picture of this Downy Woodpecker was photographed with the Canon 5D Mark III Canon 300mm f2.8 IS II with the 2X extender.

To hear the song of the Downy Woodpecker, click on the arrow below.

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

The picture of this Red-bellied Woodpecker was taken at the New York Botanical Garden. The picture of this Red-bellied Woodpecker was photographed with the Canon 5D Mark III Canon 300mm f2.8 IS II with the 2X extender.

To hear the song of the Red-bellied Woodpecker, click on the arrow below.
Red-bellied Woodpecker

Northern Flicker Male

Northern Flicker Male

Northern Flicker Male

Northern Flicker

This pretty male Northern Flicker perched on a headstone in Green-wood Cemetery was photographed with the Canon 5D Mark III with Canon 300mm f2.8 IS II and the 2X extender on a clear day in early Autumn.

To hear the sounds of the Northern Flicker, click on the arrow below.

Northern Flicker

Northern Flicker Female

Northern Flicker Female Foraging

Northern Flicker Female Foraging

Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its main food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants.

Click the arrow below to hear the sounds for the Northern Flicker

Sounds of the NorthernFlicker